Daily Archive: Sunday, November 11, 2007

Articles published on Sunday, November 11, 2007

Tony Cozier On Sunday

Concerned with the prolonged degeneration of West Indies cricket, as so many outside the Caribbean appear to be, Mark Nicholas recently made an earnest call for help to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to prevent, as he put it, its “drift into mediocrity and underachievement.”

Demerara 86-5 against Essequibo

Demerara was shakily placed on 86-5 when bad light stopped play on the rain-affected first day of the opening match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County four-day competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

Shamshudin takes the lead

Esan Shamshudin with a handicap 17, gross 83 and net 66 has taken the lead in the Le Meridian Pegasus two-day golf championships at the end of play on the opening day yesterday at the Lusignan golf course, East Coast Demerara.

Ian On Sunday

It has been a lifetime highlight to serve, along with Sir Alister McIntyre, on the Governance Committee on West Indies Cricket chaired by former Prime Minister PJ Patterson.

The View From Europe

In the next two weeks European and Caribbean ministers and their trade negotiators are going to have to explain clearly to business in particular where the negotiating process for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the region has reached and what happens next.

Chess

Memories are being refreshed for scores of Guyanese who took an interest in the chess of yesteryear now that the National Chess Championships are being contested following a lapse in activity of well over a decade.

Proof that 4000 carats of diamonds were smuggled wanting -source

The Guyana and Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is finding it difficult to come up with evidence to prove that the 4000 carats of diamonds worth over $131.665, 793 that were seized from a Belgian firm three weeks ago were smuggled into the country, a source at the agency has said but the Commissioner (ag), Williams Woolford is insisting there is evidence and they will prosecute.

Thieves desecrate church

Thieves on Friday night broke into the St Simon’s Anglican Church located at De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara and made off with a number of items but not before they desecrated the place of worship, leaving nasty surprises for the caretakers yesterday.